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- Comment on Gold hits $3,500 for first time as US dollar sinks to three-year low 4 days ago:
I agree. But countries having their currencies collapse/hyperinflate happens somewhat often and can be studied. It’s not exactly the complete economic/societal collapse preppers seem to think about.
- Comment on Gold hits $3,500 for first time as US dollar sinks to three-year low 4 days ago:
Think about it; the government is gone, there’s no gasoline or power of any kind, no way to get food.
That kind of complete collapse, world-wide is unlikely. Gold could be useful if a country’s currency collapses, which does happen sometimes. Gold dealers will still exist and they can sell it to other countries if they have to. Central banks do buy gold for various reasons. Though, gold is super volatile and highly speculative compared to central-bank currencies (usually), so I don’t really trust it as a “store of value” or currency. Gold has the reputation it does mostly for traditional reasons. Theoretically, any rare, expensive to mine/acquire resource could take its place if enough people/institutions agreed on it.
- Comment on UK police chiefs call for ban on social media for under-16s 1 week ago:
They can require ID verification of all users, as is done in some states in the US to access pornography sites.
- Comment on How likely is it that Trump will be the first President assassinated since Kennedy? 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Fuck grass, especially non-native grasses.
(Sorry, I have a hatred for lawns that probably stems from being forced to mow as a kid.)
- Comment on How do the Republicans feel about Project 2025 now? 5 weeks ago:
Didn’t mean to paint entire religions. It was just a convenient way to differentiate the 2 people I was talking about, and to imply where their motivations may come from. I’ve known plenty of less right-wing Catholics and Protestants. I am an anti-theist though, and think religion does more harm than good.
- Comment on How do the Republicans feel about Project 2025 now? 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, these people are ignorant of and don’t care about civics. The ignorance of the one guy surprised me, because they went to a decent college, but didn’t even know what gerrymandering was.
- Comment on How do the Republicans feel about Project 2025 now? 5 weeks ago:
I know a couple life-long Republicans I sometimes briefly talk about politics with (one family, one acquaintance). Neither of them like Trump, but like the idea around Project 2025. One is an evangelical Christian, the other is a Catholic.
The Catholic strongly believes government should be run like a business, and the president should be like a CEO, so he should be able to fire everyone and replace them, if needed, with workers that will execute his plans. He’s also an anti-abortion, and tough-on-crime/immigration type. However, he strongly disapproves of Trump seemingly being pro-Russian now, Trump and his cabinet’s personal lives (he’s always strangely fixated on people’s personal lives, in a moral sense, for some reason), the take-over of the FBI and CIA, and the tariffs hurting his stock portfolio.
The evangelical Christian just doesn’t like Trump as a person, and doesn’t like Russia. He’s a just-world-hypothesis, small government, women are subservient, pro-business type; but also low/lower-middle-class, and has needed, and will need the social services he opposes. I guess his opinions are pretty similar to the Catholic’s, just a little more extreme on the social side, and supports policies that have always hurt him. I mean, Republican policies hurt the (fairly wealthy) Catholic too, but at least they get to say their taxes are lower and there’s less red-tape.
- Comment on It Might Be Time to Admit the Great VR Experiment Has Failed 5 weeks ago:
I bought a used PSVR2 recently for playing Gran Turismo, but was surprised how cool the gunplay is in some games, so have mostly been playing Resident Evil 4 (which I already had from buying a collection of used games, but never played).
- Comment on Majority of AI Researchers Say Tech Industry Is Pouring Billions Into a Dead End 5 weeks ago:
I think most people agree, including the investors pouring billions into this.
The same investors that poured (and are still pouring) billions into crypto, and invested in sub-prime loans and valued pets.com at $300M? I don’t see any way the companies will be able to recoup the costs of their investment in “AI” datacenters (i.e. the $500B Stargate or $80B Microsoft; probably upwards of a trillion dollars globally invested in these data-centers).
- Comment on dear republicans, what's the point of alienating every single ally of the US? 1 month ago:
Not a Republican. I assume Trump is making backroom personal deals to get the world’s politicians and businesses to bribe him in some way. Aligns with how he seems to operate with everything else.
- Comment on Brave CEO rants about "lefties," "glowies," George Soros 1 month ago:
IDK, ketamine is kinda similar to alcohol; more psychedelic. As someone who has always struggled with depression and has done ketamine, it does seem like it would be a good fast-acting, but short half-life anti-depressant (the afterglow lasts well after the buzz). Never knew anyone who abused it habitually, long term. Heard it messes up your bladder.
- Comment on Brave CEO rants about "lefties," "glowies," George Soros 1 month ago:
Ever since I switched to GrapheneOS, Vanadium has been working well. Never had a problem with Firefox + ublock, or Librewolf (except with a corporate intranet webapp that specifically required users to use Chrome).
- Comment on I'm Tired of Pretending Tech is Making the World Better 1 month ago:
Yeah, idk what the other guy was talking about. But, I’ve ridden with someone that apparently got dependent on that automatic braking feature. He “used” something like 5 times during a 1.5 hour trip.
- Comment on Decentralized Search Engine 1 month ago:
Yeah, I’ve been experimenting with YaCy, and discovered they have a PageRank-like algorithm, but it uses a lot of resources, so they don’t recommend using it and it’s turned off by default. Haven’t tried turning it on myself. Looks like the maintainer is focusing on YaCy Grid, meant for organizations, not general decentralized search.
- Comment on Managarr v0.5.1 is Out with Multi-Instance support! 1 month ago:
The page uses canvas, and Librewolf blocks some canvas functionality by default for privacy reasons. You should see a little icon to the left of the url that you can click to allow the site to run correctly.
- Comment on Sergey Brin says AGI is within reach if Googlers work 60-hour weeks 1 month ago:
For me. I think everything is physical, and there’s always a cause and effect. There is no magical non-physical consciousness. A combination of your genetics, experiences, and environment determine the “choices” you make/actions you take. Free will is an illusion, IMO.
- Comment on Suffering is Real. AI Consciousness is Not. | TechPolicy.Press 1 month ago:
Lol. This comment sent me down a rabbit hole. I still don’t know if it’s logically correct from a non-physicalist POV, but I did come to the conclusion that I lean toward eliminative materialism and llusionism. Now I don’t have to think about consciousness anymore because it’s just a trick our brains play on us (consciousness always seemed poorly defined to me anyways).
I guess when AI appears to be sufficiently human or animal-like in its cognitive abilities and emotions, I’ll start worrying about its suffering.
- Comment on Self-hosted home server project - call for competent advisory opinions 1 month ago:
If you’re running a lot of stuff on the same server, I agree with others that you’d want to use containers or VMs to avoid possible dependency hell. I prefer containers so I don’t have multiple OSs using RAM. I’ve never used Proxmox, but if I understand correctly, it’s an OS specifically built for running containers and VMs more easily, so I’m guessing that’d be a good choice. I personally just use Ubuntu LTS or Debian, Docker, and SSH to administer my servers, because that’s what I’m familiar with.
A cheap used Desktop PC off Craigslist or whatever should be fine. Desktops are more upgradable and configurable. You’d want to make sure the CPU and Mobo support however much RAM you’d want. Ext4 is fine if using a single disk; ZFS for multiple disks with redundancy. Preferably, a smallish SSD for the OS disk, but not required.
*arr stack for pirating: wiki.servarr.com
Jellyfin for serving media. You may want something like the cheapest Intel Arc GPU for transcoding if you’re going to serve HDR video to low-spec devices.
Nextcloud for basic file sharing. NFS for high performance file sharing with Linux machines, if needed. Syncthing for syncing files if you need that.
Immich for something similar to Google Photos, if needed.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Also if they can’t afford that, surely they have state medical insurance
Ha! No, depending on the state, there are tons of barriers, means-testing, work requirements, mandated classes they might not be able to attend (due to childcare/lack of transportation), etc.
- Comment on I am from a different millenia 1 month ago:
I recently went back to pirating and transferring music to my phone like it was an iPod, lol. VLC is a good player (and works with Android Auto), and Strawberry is good on Linux for listening and library management. The SoulSeek network has a lot of hard to find stuff in flac (I use the Nicotine+ client).
- Comment on Indie devs have begun adding a no generative AI stamp to their store pages 1 month ago:
I’d argue that even if gen-AI art is indistinguishable from human art, human art is better. E.g. when examining a painting you might be wondering what the artist was thinking of, what was going on in their life at the time, what they were trying to convey, what techniques they used and why. For AI art, the answer is simply it’s statistically similar to art the model has been trained on.
But, yeah, stuff like game textures usually aren’t that deep (and I don’t think they’re typically crafted by hand by artists passionate about the texture).